I'm an experienced iOS developer diving into Python. I'm setting up my first Django project. This is also first time for me to use Mercurial for version control (before I heavily used SVN, then GIT).
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Is it possible that I could use mercurial (hg) to ignore the changes on my local but always get the latest one and remind me of the changes when conflicts?
e.g. I have a pom.xml file which use a less ...

I have added a folder to the file .hgignore and hence the files in it (and inside it subdirectories) are ignored. However, I just added a file to one of the subdirectories of the ignored folder. How ...

I'm trying to get a regex working to use in an .hgignore file that will ignore various copies of .config files made during debugging.
The regex should match any path ending in .config as long as the ...

In my global .hgignore file, I'm ignoring files in the packages/ directory. In this one repo, I want to not ignore that folder.
Is it possible to un ignore a file that has been ignored by a previous ...

I am quiet novice to Mercurial and I would like to ignore all files included in the followinf patterns:
folder1/folder2/folder3/Res1
folder1/folder2/folder3/Res2
folder1/folder2/folder3/Res3
I have ...

So what I really wish to do is to ignore some files that have already been added committed and pushed in the repository in mercurial .I have a project with the following directory structure.
Project ...

I've got many C# class libraries in one repository. I want to blanket ignore all files that exist in a /obj/Debug/ folder, no matter where they may exist. They may exist at basically any depth within ...

I've got a configuration file ("config") that we originally committed to our repository. (first mistake)
We then deleted that file using hg rm, and left a sample configuration file in the repository.
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If so, why? With git, these only showed up for me after resolving conflicts. However with hg and sourcetree, discarding changes creates .orig files. I know there is a command to discard without saving ...

Mercurial is presently ignoring a file which I believe shouldn't be ignored. The .hgignore file is remarkably large, and after a cursory read-through it's not obvious which rule(s) is/are the culprit.
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In tortoisehg, i would like to add home/hello.php in .hgignore files but i don't know how to do this? It doesn't work. With somme regular expression?
I try home/hello.php in hgignore but it doesn't ...

I have a file default.config in the root of my repository. I tweaked it for my own setup, and I do not want to commit it. Ever. What are my options other than commit -X "^default\.config$"?
I added ...

I am trying to set up an hg repo for an old project on Windows. I want to ignore images, binaries, and some 3rd party source files, however these files contains different casing for the same patterns, ...

I have two branches in my mercurial repository with the same .hgignore file: dir/
One branch (development) should ignore this directory, while the other (release) should not ignore it. I know I can ...

A little retrospective now that I've settled into Mercurial. Forget forget files combined with hg remove. It's crazy and bass-ackwards. You can use hg remove once you've established that something is ...

My ASP.NET website references refresh files that are being excluded because they reside in the ...\bin\ directory of projects.
What can I add to my .hgignore file to ensure just the ...\bin\*.refresh ...